skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s expensive, $300/month. I try to justify it to myself by noting it’s on their business Metro-E network so it’s completely reliable and has amazing support. Also an entire /48 of static IPv6. It was $150/month for the first two years, which was much more palatable.

Their model is expensive because they don’t wire while neighborhoods. For me they had to run fiber a quarter mile, down my street, and trench under my driveway. I imagine all these one-offs make the per house investment quite high.
> Lenovo

Does Lenovo have something with Ryzen + Nvidia discrete GPU at the moment, with ThinkPad build quality?
Too late. They had their chance and blew it.
That was hilarious! And it's such a cool project.
Just copy & paste this entire post in a Kickstart page and watch the money pile up. Seriously. (but omit the "liar" part)
I personally know somebody who is currently running a Firefox with 3,000+ (yes, you read that right) tabs as part of their day to day workflow. Firefox just unloads tabs that weren't used for long and cause high memory pressure which is very neat feature for tab addicts.
New Zealand is phasing out cheques.

Many shops don’t accept them, some banks have already stopped using them altogether, and the rest of the major banks are phasing them out this year.

A cheque is a rare thing to see (I haven’t handled one for a decade or so?)
Could you please give a TLDR for those who don't have the time to read the anti-trust filing? Thanks!
Already happening: "California Water Futures Begin Trading Amid Fear of Scarcity"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/water-fut...
RDF is absolutely about triples and the converse graph form! The serialization formats are immaterial, orthogonal. The fact that you think it's about any particular format makes it obvious that you don't get it at all.
Once you learn to design (which is pretty easy), it changes your life. You can get custom-built components tailored exactly to your problem in minutes. Computer cables being rowdy? Design a hook in five minutes, done. The other day I designed and printed a custom mobile phone holder for my laptop so I can use my phone as an HD webcam with DroidCam. Cat opens the door at night? Print a small doorstop and that problem is solved.

A lot of problems just go away when you realize you can make custom components for them.
Thanks. I will share this, too.

Edit - we share why we prioritize annual pricing over monthly in our handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#annual-pricin...
Composite bows were made thousands of years ago using this principle. Tendons glued in alternating layers.
It Has Wheels but Can It Fly? How to Make Library Distribution Easier
Yep. Actually, i've used it now with some friends and it works very well.
Part of them is only using email, 2 are using the apps.

Two quirks:
1. Of course your mail provider needs to have IMAP enabled (some corporate outlook/exchange installations do not).
2. It could be a problem if you mail provider has a limit on maximum mails per day. I've not experienced that problem, but still..
TCP doesn't know anything about route failure or rerouting. All it does is handle a few dropped or reordered packets here and there.

In principle, you can have systems that very quickly route around damage like this, but in practice it happens so rarely that it's not worth it for consumer ISPs. I think it should exist, but the ISP space is so burdened with red tape that the only way anyone could compete with it was literally to start a rocket ship company and launch a bunch of satellites.
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IIRC the Firefox mouse scrolling/acceleration factors are quite off on macOS. I remember tweaking them to make scrolling feel much better.

Sorry I'm not on macOS any longer, I don't remember what I changed exactly.
One small design suggestion. You should include a battery so that if the electricity were to go out you could still see the time or be alerted at the time of the alarm.
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Haha, but then I'd have to do so much work :(

I was actually contacted by the CEO of Pimoroni a while back, you can give them the product and they'll handle sales and manufacturing and give you a percentage, which is a great deal for a lazy guy like me. Unfortunately, he hasn't replied to my last 3-4 emails, so I haven't pursued it further.
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It seems like the only vaccine available so far here in Argentina.

If anyone has any reliable articles on it, please post. thanks!

a cursory search pulled this up:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55221785
Wait, what? You mean there's no way to store data in an external HD that's secure from solar storms under concrete or metal shielding? Or simply keep simultaneous cloud backups on more than one part of the world's surface? You could probably just find a cloud service that offers both shielding and multi-locational backups. For many people, even ordinary people, printing out even their personal data, never mind photos, would be absurdly difficult.
Yes, sure. And TBH, even though I wrote this for my wife learning viola, I have since banned her from using it (don't worry - I have no power, she completely ignores my ban). I encourage her to use her ears rather than her eyes for monitoring her pitch, cuz, irl, that's what has to happen.
Yep, I mention that in the post. I have an LoLin ESP32 board that includes a charger and battery connector, I might just use that.
haha I've been dreaming about a 10GB LAN setup; getting that on WAN would be awesome. I'd immediately establish elaborate multi-site NAS systems.
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This reminds me of tabby, concrete mixed with oyster shells. You can still find all these old buildings made of it from the Colonial days in Georgia and South Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_concrete

The "tech" you find in the oceans is truly amazing.
In addition to all the other good points here, mentioning Zoom and the others also makes the story more vivid and "real" to people, which is important when you're competing for attention, clicks, and shares. You'll notice the headline would've basically been complete & sufficient after the word Coast: "Big Internet outages hit the East Coast." But just in case there are any Homer Simpsons out there unable to imagine the impact of such a thing, they're letting you know, that thing you think of as Zoom is actually the internet too.

Also if you mention Zoom, you can then go on about how Zoom has "become essential" in these unprecedented times when we're all in this together now more than ever stay safe. If you're the type to get worried or outraged, that contradiction between "essential" and "not working" is a better magnet for your worry or outrage, which again makes you more likely to read & share it. I think editors have this stuff internalized and do it unconsciously. My cynicism about it has reached rather a sobering depth.
Thanks! Is bucket 1 also related to hard drive won't boot. Eventually be able to recover mbr and proper boot location on and to the OS?
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I've wanted to do this for myself for a long time, especially the dimmer wake up part. This might be Inspiration enough to finally go for it.

Great write-up! I enjoyed the nihilist humour quite a lot.
Is there much difference when looking at text on an 13" screen between 1080p and 2160p ? assuming both are high quality screens.
nohup detatches the process from the shell
I couldn't find any design details online for how this was built. I'd love to read more technical details.

Since this is purely mechanical, it is probably extremely simple in design. I suspect that there are two relays (representing 2 bits) under each square's reed switch, encoding the number of "left turns" to make upon entering that square. The whiskers probably trigger a simple incrementer for each square to keep track of the number of left turns to make. When the mouse is dropped in a space, it probably turns left to reorient itself, but then knows the direction to walk once it reaches a point in the path where it has solved before because the number of left turns it needs to make in that space is already solved.
The Bonobo WS is available with a 4K 17" screen.
Yeah, I decided to switch to that from MIT/BSD as I don't like people taking the software and closing it up.
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I'm still missing the long tap on tabs to reorder them. It got removed with the switch to the new addon engine.
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O'Reilly books were my first introduction to Perl, so the domain name certainly fits here.
You can get even better coverage with the NoTracking lists (dnsmasq/unbound or dnscrypt-proxy) https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

They focus not only on tracking but also malware prevention, where possible via dns filtering.

Pi-Hole still does not properly support wildcard filtering, only via regex but that is not really efficient (requires tons of resources).
You both have an incredibly generic logo/header/copy template so I'm not really sure what you're trying to imply. Your site copies the format of Stripe and they were around in 2010, pre-dating you by 4 years.
Thanks! Go for it, I'm fairly sure the dimming will work for you, but I think the other similar screen I have doesn't work with that code entirely, it needed some small change that I don't remember now.
It's interesting, Gitlab is one of the products I most want my organisation to pay for but am constantly defeated by their pricing plans.

It sort of maps onto this decision because what I consistently found was that Bronze offered almost no value in terms of features but the step up to Silver was so big that there was no way we could dive in at that level. So we just lived on the free tier and by and large get by with that.

Part of the problem is having a lot of users who interact with the system at a fairly casual level. To license everyone at Silver/Premium would be really prohibitive. But licensing a small number up to Premium and leaving the rest on free or bronze doesn't work either.

Gitlab is one of my favorite products so I really want it to succeed.
i don't know about that, if you're going from barely making rent or just straight up homeless, to never worrying about money again, the multiplier might be even more
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25913954
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Exactly, but I had a hard time recognizing Sonny and Cher just from the lyrics.
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It's a foriegn language instruction environment for government employees. You meet with your language instructor in culturally-appropriate environment and role-play different language training scenarios.

Why shouldn't the browser have VR APIs? WebXR allows us to iterate faster, across more devices, and more easily integrate with other services than building in a framework like Unity can do for us. I've spent the last 6 years doing nothing but WebXR and Unity work and WebXR is hands down far easier to develop the sort of application we're building.

No, you're not going to build MS Flight Simulator in WebXR, but you probably weren't going to do that in Unity, either, and ain't nobody got the budget for AAA++ graphics anyway. The folks who do graphically intensive work in Unity have stripped large parts of Unity away to make it possible.

I don't understand your last question.
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It does hold true for some systems. Wind turbine generator controls can provide virtual inertia over very short time scales (a second or few) by exchanging energy with the turbine rotor. You can also provide primary frequency reserve in the negative direction (load step-off) using exactly the same ramp control that steam plants use. Typical ramp rate is 100% of rated power for a 5% change in frequency.

However, in order to provide primary frequency reserve in the other direction, you do need additional local storage. You don't need very much. Just 10% of rated power for 15 minutes gets you to very deep renewable penetration.

The trouble isn't with the technology, its with the economics. Once you set a sufficiently high price for frequency support and primary frequency reserve, suppliers will show up.
Advertising destroys everything. If something is based on ad revenue, it goes to shit ultimately.

The latest casualty was podcasts. It's revolting.

Ad-based businesses need to be boycotted until this disease is in lasting remission.
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> Night-time temperatures can drop to -900C

wait, what?
Another happy rsync.net/borg customer here, found through a blog post [1] which also contains some quick instructions.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
I don't think this is true. I've moved around a decent amount and always had access to multiple ISPs.
The ability for the internet to reroute after N path failures is there but someone has to pay for N paths worth of unused network to be ready for it. Most would rather just pay low cost and utilize all the bandwidth that can get them 364/365 days a year. For others (usually businesses) there are more expensive options.
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Yes, "won't boot" meaning the root filesystem isn't recoverable, can't fully boot without that. You could have, for example, a working /boot, but a dead /. In that case, the kernel will boot up and then panic when it can't mount root.

A bad mbr is also possible, for reasons unrelated to any filesystem. And a journaling filesystem doesn't always help with drive errors, etc. I was trying to scope down to filesystem issues due to an unorderly shutdown, where the disk drive itself is fine.
Tabby concrete, concrete made with oyster shells
Is it normal for a security issue of this magnitude to have a 12 day notification period for everyone? That seems... short.
There is a good discussion of this also with ama from one of the developers live on Reddit :

https://www.reddit.com/r/vive/comments/l5idbu
Kicking off 2021 with 20k developers
I haven't noticed any particular noise from the unit. I'm in my late thirties, so if it is at the higher end of human hearing, perhaps those particular cilia are gone, but I'm happy. Placing my ear on the keyboard doesn't detect anything either.

It has been the better part of a decade since I've had a laptop with a fan, so that is a little bit different, but I only notice it under higher loads.
1952 aye karamba!

Am wondering, if this an an undepletable resource?

KrkrkkRrkrkrkrkrkrk!
Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine
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Which version of docsis is this? 2.0 from 2002?
One of those companies is facebook right? I think this blog post provides a much more balanced view: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2017/11/towards-bigge...
Let's be sure to keep the science that says there are more than two genders. Because _that_ is definitely very much science!
I wanted system76 but ended up with a xps17 for this reason
Isn't there a free option? What were the main features pushing you to the $4 plan?

edit: looks like for multi-user you need paid?
This was always the case. Nothing has changed.
That's true and I hadn't thought of that angle at all. If it saves them from investor divestment for another 6 months it's a steal!

/cynicism
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right! its way better. Especially in these times where the ferries have limited capacity. It simply isn't worth the hassle.

The location of the planes is really convenient, too.

I've always hated the ferries anyway, but now that I've seen the light of Harbour Air, there's no going back.
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I believe that's supposed to be -90C. Clearly a typo.
Hi, I am writing from my phone and on the move. Don't have personal mind reading AI so it can type text for me. Sorry for errors :)

So technicaly it is possible to rewrite that it can read what thoughts person can have. Atleast those repeatedly ones.

Situation: man suicide bomber at airport. His thoughts "push the button. Not now. Wait a bit. That guy is looking at me wtf Im gonna blow. You chikenshit. Im pushing Im pushing Im gonna push. Do I got Likes on facebook. I forgot my notes at pancakes shop with phone number I need to call for instructions. Mom forgive me."
So AI reads brain waves randomly selected persons and Lest say picks this guy because of one his thought then analises second by using examples alarm goes to security.

Another thing can you share on github the code? I would like to make my own machine for my mind reading. I could manage to create just upgraded machine for my needs, so it could serve me coffe when I want or play me a song when I have sutch thoughs or answer my phone for me if my hands are bussy but it's important etc. Or call to someone if I have thoughts that I miss that person but somehow I am not on the mood to dial the number.

(This AI tech could be helpfull in lockdown. People are going crazy, loliness etc. Even if all will go crazy then AI in home automation system can call psichiatric free line to help and to get up. Or call the police or the ambulance before the accident. In the lunatic hospital it can be usefull to call the nurse or to know condition of the pacient because he is a pacient and not telling the truth what on his mind. And to control all the humanity it can be used too. What to think, what to do futurism-totalitarism)

For a free marketing ideas you could share with me the repo.

For a repo I could send you my amazon echo. Still it's an oldschool if to compare with your AI.
Wow! Been using Tara since launch and it’s just been getting better. Can’t wait to see what else is in store.
Yep same. I'm a mere web developer that mostly works on Mac. Getting Pihole setup only took me like an afternoon after having an RPi sitting around doing nothing for months. They make it really easy, just follow the instructions. Also I'm lucky enough that my router has a friendly interface where it's easy to set the router DNS to pihole.
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I think I'd reply to this with a "yes and no" kinda thing. For us, maintaining anything requires time and $$. This is, in part, because technology changes. Even in a vacuum with no new active development, money and $$ is required to ensure everything stays up and running.

eg. as our use base has grown, so too has our database. And so while the optics of it from the end-user POV is that the product has remain unchanged, we've had to invest in database and scaling services in order to continue to meet the initial offerings.

It's not as simple as that, but you probably get the gist of it.

A more relevant example might be a web service that emails you once a week. If the mailing service that powers this requires DNS or integration changes to help fight spam, over time that will require time (and perhaps $$).

If I'm misunderstanding your point, let me know :)
I've found the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adI6-liGXqE, he said something along the lines of "five dollars [not fifty cents] per device running Objective-C", that make me think he meant the runtime.

I don't necessarily agree that the result would have been a rewritten runtime, just because the NeXT runtime (and compiler based on gcc) already was their own code so the licence must have been for "IP" in broader terms. Remembering that Apple were very heavily into Java around the time of the NeXT integration (https://www.sicpers.info/2020/07/so-whats-the-plan-part-1-wh...), I imagine that they would have gone more heavily in Java's direction.
I did find this article [0] that argues the opposite: that (high-rise) condos are indeed more expensive per square foot. the fewer square feet per bedroom could be enough to offset this. I guess it doesn't really matter what the reality is; you could still be right that people perceive apartment dwellers not to be paying their fair share of school funding.

[0] https://financialpost.com/real-estate/condos-cost-more-than-...
Starting an ISP isn't all THAT hard.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared...
Base64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.
What's the justification for the self-managed and SaaS products being priced the same? That isn't intended to be snarky but a legitimate question, by the way.
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Thanks for expressing the concern. First of all it is planned to be integrated with Lombok. Secondly Lombok does not support what this plugin provides. Thirdly, not everyone uses Lombok.
Can still remember the multinational were wanted to host the webapplciation we developed from them at their data centre. They wanted to charge us (not the business unit for some odd reason) nearly €20.000 per year to host a RoR web application.

Ended up, hosting it ourselves, and in the last year they were paying €100k per year for it. As we would just sell the same setup for each deployment for their customers. They probably been cheaper off to host it themselves.
Xbox, Surface, and cloud once again boost Microsoft’s Q2 earnings
Which results in crisper better defined text.
Hi HN!

One thing that sucks about working at a startup is that the equity is illiquid until a liquidity event like acquisition or IPO.

There's been a rise in "recurring liquidity programs" where startups offer employees the opportunity to sell stock on a recurring basis. It's a big employee benefit where otherwise employees are stuck with illiquid stock that they can't sell if they need to buy a house or car.

We wanted to quantify how a recurring liquidity program can increase employees' liquid comp so we built this calculator.

If the company makes a certain percentage of an employees' shares available to be sold, say 15%, and the company is growing quickly enough, employees can make liquid comp on par with FB within 3-4 years and still have the upside of the equity they hold.

Would love to get thoughts/feedback on this!
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I think the first example is pretty good:

> Build targets clean, depends, all, without occupying the terminal

This accommodates a workflow where one wouldn't prefer to just open up another terminal to do other stuff (maybe you're not in a graphical environment, maybe there's no tmux, etc.). With just the shell features, one could do `make ... && make ... && make ... &`, but that would cause bothersome output that would prevent you from effectively working in the same terminal. One could redirect the output of those commands, but then you lose it, or you have to think of where to collect it. This provides an alternative where you can background and still have convenient access to the output when you need it.

The other use is something like:

$ nq mpv $youtube_url

$ #work... work... work....

$ nq mpv $next_youtube_url

so that the next starts when the first finishes.
Your position is that the price-finding function of the market is the ability to short. This isn't required in ANY other market.

If there are more buyers than sellers, the price goes up. If there are more sellers than buyers, the price goes down.

We don't need uninvested third parties literally gambling on the outcome of the above. The market will work just perfectly fine with just buying and selling.
They push features down to the lower tiers pretty frequently. Easier to launch them on ultimate and then move them down than the other way.

Silver got a lot of great project management features around roadmapping and epics last year that allowed our team to cancel jira sub, so that was sweet.

edit: wouldn't count on the fancier devops tools getting moved through :/
the drivers on the brown delivery vans are unionized too, as opposed to FedEx, which uses all contractors.
You'd expect better from Sky At Night.

(Wikipedia says -143 °C, -225 °F)